Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: what factors are related to the learning curve?

Surgery Today

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 50-56

  Ricci, Claudio ^a   Casadei, Riccardo ^a   Buscemi, Salvatore ^a   Taffurelli, Giovanni ^a   D’Ambra, Marielda ^a   Pacilio, Carlo Alberto ^a   Minni, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Learning; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING CURVE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS RESECTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGERY;

EID: 84955275384     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-014-0872-x     Document Type: Article

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